Mum in the park drinking squash from baby's bottle

[Getthewonderwebout]

Takes all sorts I guess but a woman has just sat down with a child in a buggy and a toddler scooting around. She's drinking from her baby's bottle. Is this a bit yuk or is it the latest thing? Is it replacing cocktails in jars? I couldn't grasp that either!

[Fairy13]

Sorry. Shouldn't have let it get to me.

[AmberNectarine]

Awww, man. Why did I have to bf and get saddled with two real babies? If I'd have known I would have FF and now I could be having a lay in rather than taking them to school. They don't tell you this at NCT.

[TheNewStatesman]

Squash/juice in bottles (and toddler type cups with lids) is considered a bad idea. If you really want to give these to a baby or toddler, give it in an open cup.

The problem is that bottles are spill-proof, so it creates a temptation to let the kid wander around with it throughout the day to keep them quiet. If juice and squash are limited to open cups, it means that in practice tiny children will end up consuming very limited amounts, because the drinking will have to be supervised to avoid disgusting sticky all over the place from spills.

[NeedsAsockamnesty]

Yes mrsD indeed it does.

The summer of 2003 will forever more be refered to in hushed tones as "the red ranger,wardrobe and prunes incident" and I have very fond memories of the resulting investigation

[WoonerismSpit]

for fairy.

Don't be angry, it's just provocative shit trollery.

And never justify your feeding choices to another person. You don't need to, and arseholes who think you do aren't worth the time it takes to type it anyway.

[scalliondays]

Or maybe lotus light is just joking?? And we're misinterpreting what you mean??

[Gileswithachainsaw]

If only we had known this before. We could have saved ourselves a fortune in car seats and clothes. fake babies don't need that shit

[Fairy13]

My baby was bottle fed from 6 weeks because I was ravaged by horrific post natal depression due to the abusive relationship I was in.

If I had continued to breast feed I genuinely think I would have been sectioned.

You breast feeding does not make you a superior mother to me. Although I suspect that you know that already, when your child is enjoying all those benefits of breast milk but bonding with their nanny over you.

I have not read a post on my that has made me more angry in a very long time.

[scalliondays]

I'm going to have nightmares now about pretend babies growing up to become pretend adults and passing themselves off as humans before suddenly coming to get us - probably pointing their fingers whilst emitting a high pitch scream..... even worse... just remembered that I was ff.... nowhere to hide then....

[Gileswithachainsaw]

ha ha ha it's dawn of the dead, zombie fake babies walking the earth.....

does IV or NG feeding administer a vaccine at the same time or are they still pretend babies.? I really want to know. If dd2 has a chance here of being real.

[Aermingers]

So Lotus, do you mean that a nanny gave your child a bottle of expressed milk and you think that means you personally have never bottle fed a baby so you are somehow morally superior to women who don't pay someone else to do it? Lolzzzz, Mumsnet gold.

[TantrumsAndBalloons]

Is the "I have never bottle fed a baby somehow relevant?

And when you say it's not a real baby if it isn't breast fed...you aren't that stupid are you? I mean, I get you probably want to stir up trouble but you could have said so many other goady statements.

Saying people's babies aren't real is actually a new level of stupidity. What are they then? Pretend children? Do they suddenly cease to be real?

[FastWindow]

Not only have I drunk from whatever receptacle I've brought for the dc, I've forgotten to dress appropriately for the weather, due to making sure the dc have all the relevant stuff with/on them.

So ill be in flip flops in winter drinking from a teated bottle. Cest la vie.

[keeptothewhiteline]

I have never bottle fed a baby either Lotus.

[LotusLight]

Read my words more carefully- I have never bottle fed a baby. It's true. I did though express milk at work.

[Lookoutapiano]

I've cleaned up my kids diarrhoea and vomit, pulled worms from their bumholes and nits from their heads... Like shite am I going to find it disgusting to share their cup!!

[BernardlookImaprostituterobotf]

Have I been redirected by some virus or has MN gone completely twatty recently? People hate harping on about the good old days but when you've read more than one thread about how awful it is adults say fuck and cunt on an adult website while at the same time go around being absolute arseparts I wish it was all fields again. You can't say cunt but you can be one, a ripe and poisonous one, then bitch that you're being bullied because there's swears in the reply. There's a real shower of them about too.
It's clearly time to check out for the holidays. Gets earlier every year.

[splendide]

Lotus went back to work two weeks after her babies were born so not quite sure how they never had a bottle.

[AnnieOnAMapleLeaf]

Lotus - you are a fruit loop! Both my children were bottle fed due to my inability to breast feed. Based on the general chaos they leave in their wake, I am relatively sure they are real.

It's nice to know that MN still has a resident nutcase who is happy to shame other women based on their parenting choices.

[NeedsAsockamnesty]

mrsD

Two of my boys can get through pretty much any lock in seconds as well and even if they couldn't a normal kitchen cupboard wouldn't keep them out for less than about 8 mins, scarely enough the cupboard break is often silent.

They once removed a kitchen side and went in through the top to hunt out some dried figs. (Restricted food in our house due to the results of to much dried fruit).

On a side note we used dental wipes if we couldn't get the brush in the mouths and oranurse toothpaste when we could and blue disclosing tablets were a huge hit (but they do stain ceilings)

[MrsTedCrilly]

smells*

[MrsTedCrilly]

^^ My baby must be one of the fakes then.. Though he feels and smell pretty real

[Aermingers]

Real babies are only fed with real breasts

Fucking HELL. So do you mean all the rest of them are really Cabbage Patch Dolls?